Nature Writing Festival

Nature Writing Festival

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Over five days in June, the NATURE WRITING FESTIVAL HAMBURG 2025 will present current trends and topics in the traditional and currently booming genre of nature writing in talks, lectures and readings. Participants include authors from Germany, Sweden, the UK, Iceland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Ukraine. The festival starts with evening readings, followed by three themed days and concludes with an excursion. The festival is the first of its kind in Germany.

17 17 Vernissage: Images of nature 16:00 – 18:00 Buy now Festival kick-off: NATURE AND US 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now

18 18 #ÖmeetsÖ: Ecology meets Economy 10:15 – 12:30 Buy now Revenant nature 15:00 – 17:30 Buy now The pupil with the plantain - a memory of Loki Schmidt 15:00 – 17:00 Buy now European Essays on Nature and Landscape 18:00 – 20:00 Buy now Narrative of the North Sea Coast 18:00 – 20:00 Buy now Reading Marion Poschmann 19:00 – 21:00 Buy now Reading: "The Others", Lea Schneider 19:00 – 21:00 Buy now Reading: Marie Gamillscheg and Gianna Molinari 19:00 – 21:00 Buy now The law of nature 19:00 – 21:30 Buy now The return of the large herbivores 19:00 – 21:00 Buy now Baumland: Which forest do we want and which one will survive? 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Guide to the ecological home 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Nature of the future: The animal and plant world in times of climate change 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Reading and discussion: Esther Kinsky and Katharina Mevissen 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Reading: "My Spitsbergen", Birgit Lutz 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now

19 19 Poetry for a wild city 10:15 – 12:30 Buy now Home / Anti-home 15:00 – 17:00 Buy now Streaks of sky - About the edge of the sea and its birds 16:00 – 18:00 Buy now What we don't know about birds 18:00 – 20:00 Buy now Dwindling glaciers 19:00 – 21:00 Buy now Reading: "Vom Norden rollt ein Donner", Markus Thielemann 19:00 – 21:00 Buy now Nature Writing in Lyrics: Daniela Danz 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Picture lecture: The sky above us 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Reading: "Grass", Bernhard Kegel 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Reading: Being alive, Lann Hornscheidt 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Silent Nature Reading - all books of the festival 19:30 – 22:00 Buy now The disappearance of the wilderness 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Reading: "Flusslinien" Katharina Hagena 20:30 – 22:00 Buy now

20 20 Wilderness and cultivation. Writing and doing. About Nature Writing 10:15 – 12:30 Buy now "Talmäander", "Älv" and "Stillwaters" - Nature Writing about rivers and lakes 15:00 – 17:00 Buy now What does nature say? Philosophical dialogue 18:00 – 20:00 Buy now »Du sagst, Norden«: Nature Writing im Poetry Slam 18:00 Buy now Empty with house 19:00 – 21:00 Buy now Reading: Ideas about love, Antje Rávik Strubel 19:00 Buy now Between metropolis and wilderness. Reports from "Niemandland" 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Nature Writing Workshop with Miek Zwamborn 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now Nature in Poetry Slam 19:30 – 21:30 Buy now "Wildhof": Nature Writing im Roman 20:00 – 21:30 Buy now Sky dream and cloud train 21:00 – 22:30 Buy now

21 21 Excursion 10:30 – 14:00 Buy now Excursion 15:00 – 18:30 Buy now Closing event: Talk and music 18:00 – 21:00 Buy now